At November 2013, a student of University of Indonesia, later known by her alias RW, reported an Indonesian famous poet, Sitok Srengenge to police. Sitok was accused of raping and impregnating RW. Sitok is an active poet and curator of Salihara, a cultural and art community owned by Tempo, one of giant media group in Indonesia. Starts from this case, Indonesian news media, especially online news, were in race to expose the story. Those online news media framed this case from different angle and point of view. Ironically, Tempo, which strongly supported a raped female journalist in Jakarta to speak out a few months before this case, framed their publication by taking role as Sitok’s supporter.
As described by Golding and Elliot (1979), Merritt (1995), and Kovach and Rosenstiel (2001), there are five ideal-typical traits or values as part of journalisms’ ideology: public service, objectivity, autonomy, immediacy and ethics. By taking a stance to a sexual crime actor side, this paper will explain that Tempo does not deliver journalism, but instead violates their public service, objectivity, autonomy and ethics values. Furthermore, this paper will prove the evidence how Tempo framed Sitok’s case publicity by highlighting news title, content and news sources compare to other Indonesian online news media.
Robert Entman (1993) defined that media framing encompasses two points, which are issue selection and emphasizing of certain aspects of an issue. From those two points, it can be inferred how political attitude or ideology of a media exists. There are some locations of news where framing is usually activated, such as news title, news focus and news closing. The purpose of the news framing is able to identify based on the framing loc...
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...s point, the alternative information is able to delegitimize mainstream media contents or fail to show its power as trusted and reliable information.
The journalism duty is more than reporting news. The journalist also frame and interpret news in order to shape public opinion. The journalism is also tied by several values. This paper has showed how a notable media due to media ownership affair loses its objectivity by framing its publication toward a rape case by a poet toward a university student. The news title comparison between Tempo and other online media is the main tool for analyzing the news framing. The analysis clearly showed that Tempo is bias and do not support humanity. A rape case is not private matter, but society problem instead. The journalism as an ethical public service and have the autonomy should always tell the truth and defend the humanity.
In comparing ethical issues surrounding the journalists in “All The President’s Men” and “Welcome To Sarajevo”, there are several ethical issues that the journalists experienced. Ethics are an important aspect of journalism, since journalists face a multitude of ethical issues within their industry. Therefore, there are ethical guidelines that journalists’ use called “The Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics” [SPJ Code of Ethics]. When analyzing how the journalists in “All The President’s Men” and “Welcome To Sarajevo”, one can refer to the SPJ Code of Ethics to observe the possible ethical issues the journalists experienced. The four main concepts in the SPJ Code of Ethics are: seek truth and report it, minimize harm, act independently,
It is not uncommon to hear people complaining about what they hear on the news. Everyone knows it and the media themselves knows it as well. Some of the most renowned journalists have even covered the the media’s issues in detail. Biased news outlets have flooded everyday news. We find that journalism’s greatest problems lie in the media’s inability for unbiased reporting, the tendency to use the ignorance of their audience to create a story, and their struggles to maintain relevance.
In “Reporting the News” by George C. Edwards III, Martin P. Wattenberg, and Robert L. Lineberry, the main idea is how the media determines what to air, where to get said stories that will air, how the media presents the news, and the medias effect on the general public. “Reporting The News” is a very strong and detailed article. The authors’ purpose is to inform the readers of what goes on in the news media. This can be inferred by the authors’ tone. The authors’ overall tone is critical of the topics that are covered. The tone can be determined by the authors’ strong use of transitions, specific examples, and phrases or words that indicate analysis. To summarize, first, the authors’ indicate that the media chooses its stories that will air
Paul, Richard, and Linda Elder. How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda in National and World News. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Criticalthinkingforbusiness.org. Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2006. Web.
There is no denying that news media is big business. The complete coverage of stories and investigative reports are certainly at risk with the rise of media as a business, rather than strictly a service to the public. Over the past few years, there have been a number of cases where television stations or news publications have killed news stories or forced reporters to slant stories due to pressure from advertisers or those in power at the news. This paper will attempt to examine the relationship between social responsibility and news editors, and apply ethical theories to explain what should and can be done. Should editors have the power to kill or slant stories, depending on their own interests or those of their advertisers?
The article kicks it off by an intricate recognition of whether reporter intervention is ethical to journalism in this period of time such as Sonia Nazario who had written
The author brings us to review the historical development of American journalism and analyse the social motivation of objective norm emergence. Some opinion of other scholar were presented and criticized. In conclusion, this article is a significant guide to American journalism research.
... prejudice, bias, and in a general manner that imposes their views onto an audience. Yet, it is an entirely different story when stories are written in a specific manner for other reasons than to impose individual politics. The reasons mentioned throughout this paper are just some of the many ways in why a journalist might account for the story’s bias, and why news organizations thrive and depend upon such methods. Also, one of the most important key concepts to keep in mind when discussing bias in the media is that much has changed with new technologies. Just for example, budgets have been more restricting, consumer expectations have changed, and the audience expects stories to be shorter and more visual. With this being said, there are not always internal pressures, but there are physical and external restrictions and limitations that encourage bias as well.
One example of alternative media is Internet websites, including Sleuth Journal, which exposes corruption, and produces truthful news to the public. Through articles and structures, we will examine why Sleuth Journal is an alternative media.
Today, many types of media bias are used as a strategy by reporters and politicians to sway the public into agreeing with their views. They have gone far enough to make the U.S. public recognize the bias and distrust the Media. First off, there is bias by omission. This consists of leaving out one side of an article to make their views seem more credible. For example, a republican may focus on facts that support conservative beliefs, and leave out liberal supporting facts. Next, there is bias by selection of sources. In this bias, the selected source will support the views of the selector. For instance, a republican would choose a conservative “expert” to report. Another bias is that of story selection. For this bias, an individual would highlight and share stories supporting their views and ignore the stories against their views.
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The first is the crisis of viability. The chance of success in the journalism in the mainstream is approaching a decline due to the transformations in technologies and new access to multiple sources of information. The second is a crisis in civic adequacy. The contributions of journalism to citizenship and democracy have begun to shift and this shift has caused a question of the relevancy of journalism to democratic processes. In a democratic society journalism plays the role of the government watchdog. The effectiveness of society’s watchdog is now being challenged and in turn alternating the structure of the current democratic society. Many critical theorists of the press during the beginning of the 20th century were concerned with finding appropriate forms of public regulation of the press and journalism to ensure that journalists are writing “news and information about public affairs which sustains and nurtures citizen information, understanding and engagement and thereby a democratic polity” (Cushion and Franklin, 2015: 75) (Dahlgren, Splichal 2016). Journalism is a political entity that influences and informs the public. It is meant to work as a source of public information that helps and does not hinder the general public specifically in political processes. The article
In trying to attract new audiences, news media have begun to transition from reporting to becoming a form of entertainment. With the meteoric rise of social media’s role as a news source, the fight for an increase of diversity in the media, and the ever-growing desire of immediate content, the future of responsible journalism is more important than ever. Ask yourself, why do I think the way I do? Where do my political views originate? How do I prove them? Most likely, it is due to the biased portrayal of issues in the media and the politicization that accompanies what we consume. Now, compare your views to your preferred news reporting entity. More than likely, they are the same.
Public journalism has changed much during its existence. Papers are striving to actively involve readers in the news development. It goes beyond telling the news to embrace a broader mission of improving the quality of public life. The American style of journalism is based on objectivity and separates us from the bias found in most European partisan papers. American journalism is becoming too vigilant in being objective that the dedication to investigating stories tends to be missing in the writing. Public journalism works to incorporate concepts from partisan and objective writing to increase the flow of information and improve the quality of public life.
The introduction of the internet to modern society has brought about a new age of information relation. Since there is no longer a need to wait until the next print day, news from all over the world is available at a person’s fingertips within hours or even minutes of the event. With this advent of such easily accessible information, new problems for the news media have also arisen. Aside from potentially losing good economic standing because newspapers are no longer being purchased in the quantities they used to be, the credibility of the information itself is also put into question. No one would argue that credibility of news sources is unimportant, but there is a discrepancy in what takes precedence; economy and speed or getting the information out correctly at the first publishing by taking the time to make sure all facts are checked. The importance of having a system of checks on all information submitted is paramount. People trust what they read and believe it to be so without always questioning. If all information were to not be checked thoroughly, there would be instances where people read an article only for information included to be wrong and they go on believing such information. This can be very dangerous as misinformed people make misinformed decisions. With an increase in errors being made by citizen bloggers and even major publications, many are worried that journalistic ethics and credibility in the news media are being sacrificed in order to maintain swiftness in the news circuit and to retain personal profits. Though getting information to the masses quickly is a major part of the media’s importance, this should not mean that the credibility of that information being presented should be sacrificed for it...